AFR340H1

The Literary Lives of African Women

This course will track the literary history of African women through their writings. Students will study a variety of texts including memoirs, novels, short stories, creative non-fiction, drama, and poetry produced by African women with an eye to the politics of representation and legibility in these texts. This course will ask, how have African women written about their relationships to colonization, domesticity, citizenship, and national politics? It will also engage questions about the varieties of their experiences with motherhood, knowledge-making, displacement, citizenship, and belonging.